Global coalition pledges to keep fighting Daesh after Kabul attack

Wounded Afghans lie on a bed at a hospital after a suicide attack outside the airport in Kabul last week. (AP)

WASHINGTON: The group of countries that have banded together to fight Daesh, including the United States, released a statement pledging to work to eliminate the group and taking special aim at its affiliate in Afghanistan that took responsibility for Monday's rocket attack on Kabul's airport.

"We will draw on all elements of national power — military, intelligence, diplomatic, economic, law enforcement — to ensure the defeat of this brutal terrorist organization," the coalition said in a statement released by the US State Department, which also said the countries would "identify and bring their members to justice."